Fiction in the original

Поглиблюйте знання мови за допомогою читання британської преси в Інтернеті. Список з 40 посилань.

Для тих, хто володіє англійською мовою на досить високому рівні і бажає вдосконалити свої навички, оптимальним варіантом є читання британської преси.

Для неї характерне використання лексики, що має різне стилістичне забарвлення, вживання кліше, штампів, наявність «газетної фразеології», специфічність заголовків. Мова газети поєднує в собі всі стилі літературної мови

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Oscar Wilde. The Fisherman and his Soul (audio with text)

Part 1. The Caught MermaidEvery evening the young Fisherman went out upon the sea, and threw his nets into the water.When the wind blew from the land he caught nothing, or but little at best, for it was a bitter and black-winged wind, and rough waves rose up to meet it. But when the wind blew to the shore, the fish came in from the deep, and swam into the meshes of his nets, and he took them to the market-place and sold them.

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Oscar Wilde. The Nightingale and the Rose (audio with text)

«She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,» cried the young Student; «but in all my garden there is no red rose.» From her nest in the hole-oak tree the Nightingale heard him, and she looked out through the leaves, and wondered. «No red rose in all my garden!» he cried, and his beautiful eyes filled with tears. «Ah, on what little things does happiness depend!

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Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray

Chapter 1
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn. From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum

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Oscar Wilde. Happy Prince (audio with text)

High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword-hilt.He was very much admired indeed. “He is as beautiful as a weathercock,” remarked one of the Town Councillors who wished to gain a reputation for having artistic tastes; “only not quite so useful,” he added, fearing lest people should think him unpractical, which he really was not. 

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